Ancestry of Dr.
Benjamin Spock

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Dorcas Plumb

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of Benjamin Spock — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 797 
  • Father:
  • John Plumb 
  • Mother:
  • Dorothy Chaplin   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1635 
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 Apr 1725 
  • Death Location:
  • Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • John Lyman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 Jan 1654/1655 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Branford, New Haven, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  John Lyman Jr. (Ahnentafel No:398 )

  Mary Lyman

  Benjamin Lyman

• Sources for Dorcas Plumb

  • ¹ American Ancestors Magazine, 2011, Vol. 12.2, p. 41.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 11/14/2012).
  • ³ New Haven, CT: Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol. 3, p. 694.
  • ⁴ Northampton, MA: Vital Records, Page 964, Marriage record for John Limon and Dorcas Plum (in Branford, CT).
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 2007, Vol. 82, p. 259.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1218.
  • ⁷ Barthelmas, Della Gray, The Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical and Genealogical Reference, Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers (1997), 92.
  • ⁸ Coleman, Lyman, Genealogy of the Lyman Family, in Great Britain and America; the Ancestors and Descendants of Richard Lyman from . . ., Albany, New York: J. Munsell (1872), 39-40.
  • ⁹ Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his Wife Frances Helen Miller, Vol. 1, Concord, New Hampshire: Privately Printed at The Rumford Press (1948), 386.
  • ¹⁰ Jacobus, Donald Lines, ed., The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and his Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth, Woodstock, Vermont: N. Grier Parke, II (1960), 149.
  • ¹¹ Johnson, Alvin Page, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Colonial Ancestors: Their Part in the Making of American History, Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard (1933), 146, 148.

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